CE0608 Marine Aerosol Production (MAP) Survey

Data to achieve this objective were collected during the MAP cruise on board the Marine Institute's R.V. Celtic Explorer in June-July 2006. Various types of experiments were conducted to provide data to derive the S3F. For whitecap measurements, a mast on the foredeck was constructed and mounted to measure sea spray fluxes using eddy covariance.

Containers on the foredeck contained sophisticated instrumentation for characterisation of atmospheric components relevant for the assessment of primary and secondary aerosol production: atmospheric trace gases and aerosol chemical and physical properties. A whitecap camera was also mounted to the railing of the Monkey deck of the vessel. To quantify the number and size flux of primary inorganic and organic marine sea-spray aerosol (PMA)